VAT Taxes seen thru The Overton Window

Barrack is the Master Manipulator of The Overton Window, a political theory that describes a "window" in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on a particular issue.The theory says the window will gradually move over time based on a variety of factors, including truth, facts, arguments, big events and misinformation, to name a few. It is named after its originator, Joseph P. Overton, a brilliant public policy strategist and ardent free-marketer.

At any given moment the “window” includes a range of policies considered to be politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, with “acceptable” defined as something a politician can recommend without being considered too “extreme” or outside the mainstream to gain or keep public office. Sounds like the ones introduced in the Obama progressive policies and programs? 

When the window moves or expands, it means that ideas previously not considered politically acceptable have become so, and possibly that ideas previously considered acceptable are no longer. The Overton Window is a means of visualizing which ideas define that range of acceptance by where they fall in it. Proponents of policies outside the window seek to persuade or educate the public so that the window either “moves” or expands to encompass them. Sounds like the selling of the Obama policies and programs?

Like the old shell game, Obama palms the pea before he moves the  shells around. Obama shifted the Overton Window to focus in on those extra 30 Million people he covered under the expanded health care coverage and his promise to stay under the $1 Trillion  Dollar price tag. Obama just forgot to include the extra $1.1 Billion bill to pay for more I.R.S. Agents to administer it. Obama needs the VAT tax  to pass it in the lame duck congressional session at Christmas time with those Democrat politicians voted out of office who Obama threw under the bus to pass his stimulus and health care packages for his socialist collective salvation of the United States.

Take a look at the effective Income Taxes on the table below. How about a U.S. Tax of  70%?  (55% + 15%)  Is that redistribution?  Also proposed, an additional 1 1/2% Annual Net Worth Tax on high earners.